So now we know...

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Pub Violence

A researcher into pub violence has concluded that landlords may be to blame
for fights on their premises if the place is dirty and untidy.

Claire Lawrence of Leicester University's
Scarman Centre for the Study of Public Order
questioned around 200 people about several scenarios of a landlord as victim
trying to deal with a situation. She then asked them to apportion blame.

She reckons that a dirty pub sends signals that anything goes.

As with many such modern research projects, the fact that it's been done is as interesting as the findings!

Five pints a day?

[The Publican 17-May-1999]

A study by Harvard University on bladder cancer found that an increased liquid intake reduced the risk.
Water is best but any palatable liquid is good.
Men who take 4.5 pints or more per day halve the risk relative to those drinking 2 pints or less.

47,909 American men were studied over 10 years.
There are too few women with bladder cancer for a valid study.